2. By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY Additional material by Molly Lynde

3. A Little Cartoon Humor

5. The Versailles Treaty

6. A Weak League of Nations

7. The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations y No control of major conflicts. y No progress in disarmament. y No effective military force.

8. The “Stab-In-The-Back” Theory German soldiers are dissatisfied.

9. Decadence of the Weimar Republic

10. International Agreements Locarno Pact – 1925 y France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy  Guarantee existing frontiers  Establish DMZ 30 miles deep on East bank of Rhine River  Refrain from aggression against each other Kellogg-Briand Pact – 1928 y Makes war illegal as a tool of diplomacy  No enforcement provisions

11. France – False Sense of Security? The Maginot Line

12. Important Dates 1931- Japan invades Manchuria 1935- Italy invades Ethopia 1936- Rome- Berlin Pact 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War 1936/37- Japan takes Nanjing China 1936- Hitler takes Rhineland 1938- Hitler takes Austria 1938- Hitler takes Sudetenland 1938- Munich Agreement/ Appeasement 1939- Hitler takes Czhechoslovakia

13. The Great Depression

14. The Manchurian Crisis, 1931

15. Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931

16. Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie

17. Germany Invades the Rhineland March 7, 1936

18. U. S. Neutrality Acts: 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939

19. America-First Committee Charles Lindbergh

20. Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936 The “Pact of Steel”

21. y Carlists [ultra-Catholic monarchists]. y Catholic Church. y Falange [fascist] Party. y Monarchists. y Communists. y Republicans. y Socialists. The National Front [Nationalists] The National Front [Nationalists] The Popular Front [Republicans] The Popular Front [Republicans] The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939

22. The Spanish Civil War: A Dress Rehearsal for WW II? Italian troops in Madrid

23. “ Guernica” by Pablo Picasso

24. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939 The American “Lincoln Brigade”

25. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939 Francisco Franco

26. The Japanese Invasion of China, 1937

27. The Austrian Anschluss, 1938

28. The “Problem” of the Sudetenland

29. Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938 Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

30. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

31. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 1939 Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov

40. Der Fuhrer

42. Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]

43. German Troops March into Warsaw

45. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940 The Tripartite Pact

46. European Theater of Operations

47. The Phony War Ends Hitler invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.With everyone’s attention on Hitler’s sweep of these nations he sent an even larger force into France through the Ardrennes Forest, avoiding the Maginot Line - a system of fortifications along France’s border with Germany. Allied forces and German forces stared at each other. Became known as Stizkrieg

48. Dunkirk Evacuated June 4, 1940

49. The War Comes to Europe